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Some of the losses being suffered around the world are massive, obvious, and understandably devastating. The loss of lives, economic losses large scale and personal, the loss of freedom to move about. These are obvious and significant losses and we recognize them as such. We are also experiencing countless other ‘smaller’ losses. The potentially silent danger is these smaller ones can accumulate without us consciously noticing or recognizing it is actually loss we are struggling with, eventually stacking up to have just as devastating an impact as more massive singular ones.
The loss of lives happening all across the globe is truly tragic. Any loss of life in a situation such as this is tragic and the numbers likely reached before this is over will probably redefine our perceptions of that word. Each one of those numbers was someone’s relative, friend, lover, parent, child, they were someone. Recovering from the loss of a loved one can take a very long time, to a degree we never do entirely.
What makes it so devastating, beyond the specific loss of them, is losing all the aspects of our lives they were connected to. Talking with them, eating with them, seeing their typical posts online, waving to them as you head out in the…